Isn't that proving the point that the proscription is meaningless...

All that the UK has done is bring tons more attention and support to Palestine Action. The judiciary is not having it, they don't want to prosecute people for wearing a T-shirt. 


And this is still abusing the terrorism laws to harm UK citizens

https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/over-400-activists-arrested-at-palestine-action-protest-in-london/

Police said they invoked Section 60AA of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, which grants police officers the authority to demand the removal of of any signs or clothing “expressing support” for a “proscribed group.”

The MPS noted that the individuals were sent to “Prisoner Processing Points in the Westminster area,” where they were released on bail, conditional upon their not participating in any protest led by Palestine Action in the future. If the authorities press charges, they may face up to 14 years in prison.

No harm?



If you think that's OK, then why do you have a problem with vandalism?

Sanctity of person over property.

You think that picture is proof of harm being done? She's displeased because she's being arrested, and no-one likes being arrested. When you get arrested, the police often have to use force, because people very rarely just happily accept they're being arrested and just casually walk with you to the police car.

Well, if they won't prosecute and actually have consequences for supporting PA then I agree with you it is pointless having them prescribed as terror organisation. I suspect though, they are giving people a warning to stop now, but in the future there will be much heavier penalties, like losing access to your bank account etc. It might escalate even further than that. 

Not just physical harm to her person, she is subjected to police intimidation, rounded up as a criminal and released on bail, forbidden to join another protest.

Not just harm to those arrested, far greater harm to UK's reputation as well as that to UK's police force. The police losing more respect from the population only makes their real job harder.


And yes they are testing the waters whether they can get away with this before starting with heavier penalties. THAT precisely is why it is of utmost importance to nip this attack on free speech in the bud.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/over-400-activists-arrested-at-palestine-action-protest-in-london/

In July, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned that the ban of Palestine Action under the act was an over-extension of counter-terrorism powers to non-terrorist conduct. He stated that the decision to designate the organization as a terrorist group was disproportionate, violating freedom of expression and assembly.

According to the Network for Police Monitoring (NETPOL), the criminalization of support for the group is a political move aiming to shut down solidarity campaigns for the Palestinians. Particularly, NETPOL noted that the broad and poorly defined anti-terrorism law gives police powers that could be abused in racist and Islamophobic ways.

Tide is slowly turning, West Bank is getting attention from Sky News. Well over a year since the ICJ confirmed the occupation as illegal.
https://www.icj-cij.org/node/204176

Armed settlers and segregation: Inside the West Bank

Mohammed Robin left his home one morning to go to work, and when he came back he found it had been taken over by Israeli settlers. The property, near the West Bank City of Ramallah, had been in his family since 1952. ‘I have to go the legal route to defend my land, but even with a legal process… there’s not much chance,’ he says.

Settler encroachment is one of the most important issues in the West Bank at the moment, and it’s worsened since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, and the subsequent war in Gaza. Sky’s Stuart Ramsay went inside the West Bank and spoke to the Israeli military, armed settlers and the Palestinians being forced from their homes.

Well it's a start 'encroachment'.... It's Settler terrorism and land/property theft.



This won't go away

Over 500 Arrested For Palestine Action: The Day Free Speech In Britain Died

Even AI agrees

Grok SUSPENDED From Twitter For Calling Gaza “Genocide”!

Hard as it may seem to believe, X’s AI bot Grok was suspended from the platform after it stated that Israel and the U.S. were committing genocide in Gaza, citing sources such as the ICJ, UN experts, and Amnesty International.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger highlight how Grok’s posts and memory were allegedly scrubbed to erase its original statements, later replaced with contradictory messages downplaying genocide claims. The incident is framed as an example of biased moderation and censorship by social media companies to protect certain political narratives. The case is presented as part of a broader pattern of suppression across platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok against voices discussing the Gaza conflict.

Is Israel using Gaza tribal militias to help ethnic cleansing?

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/8/12/is-israel-using-gaza-tribal-militias-to-help-ethnic-cleansing

In June, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted to arming and supporting the Popular Forces militia in Gaza to oppose Hamas.

“What’s wrong with this?” he said in a short video he tweeted. “It only saves the lives of Israeli soldiers.” He did not clarify what the Popular Forces would do exactly, but experts believe Israel is backing the militia and its leader, Yasser Abu Shabab, to put a Palestinian face on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

The 31-year-old Abu Shabab, a previously unknown member of Gaza’s Tarabin Bedouin tribe, escaped prison around October 7, having been imprisoned since 2015 for drug-related charges.

Drugs are reportedly smuggled into Gaza through Egypt’s Sinai and, according to analysts, are run by ISIL-affiliated groups. This has led to a widespread belief that Abu Shabab has ISIL (ISIS) links. But Abu Shabab’s alleged affiliation with ISIL has not been an issue for Israel; analysts say it is using him to advance its ethnic cleansing plans in Gaza.

Abu Shabab, who leads the 100-man-strong Popular Forces militia, is an elementary school dropout, according to Muhammad Shehada, a visiting fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations. Despite this, he has a sophisticated and multilingual social media presence, and he recently penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal claiming that Palestinians in Gaza were done with Hamas.

Analysts believe his refined media presence is likely honed outside Gaza. “He’s not been in touch with society for the last decade,” Shehada said. “He’s a nobody. He’s basically a front guy.” His own tribe, the Tarabin, does not approve of his role in Gaza today, making a rare public statement disavowing him for allegedly collaborating with Israel.


Abu Shabab began to rise to prominence in late May 2024 after Israel invaded Rafah, in southern Gaza.

“His gang emerges a month later and becomes the main gang that loots the overwhelming majority of food and aid that’s going into Gaza systematically under [Israeli military] protection,” Shehada said.

About nine out of 10 trucks entering Gaza have been looted, according to United Nations statistics. Israel initially blamed Hamas for the looting, but humanitarian groups refuted that claim, and even the Israeli military was unable to find any proof that that was the case.

Instead, international aid workers say it was Abu Shabab who was systematically looting the aid. An internal UN memo obtained by the Washington Post specifically named Abu Shabab “the main and most influential stakeholder behind systematic and massive looting” in Gaza.

During the brief ceasefire that Israel unilaterally broke in March, Abu Shabab disappeared, only to reappear in mid-May when Israel, under immense international pressure, started to allow a trickle of aid back into Gaza.

“Literally on that day, he emerges again out of nowhere,” Shehada said.“ He’s been the face of Israel’s hunger campaign,” Shehada said, “while giving Israel full deniability of it and outsourcing the thing.”

A Palestinian face to ethnic cleansing

Beyond the stealing of aid meant for starving Palestinians, analysts said Abu Shabab and his militia are contributing to a wider Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, which has been intensifying this year.

“Israel is in the process of trying to build up the militias associated with Abu Shabab in hopes that they can expand the concentration camp zones over which those militias can operate/control so that Israel can reduce the burden of occupation while facilitating the ethnic cleansing,” Tariq Kenney Shawa, the US policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian policy network, told Al Jazeera.

Abu Shabab’s militia has been building what analysts are calling concentration camps in southern Gaza, in an effort to drive more than half a million Palestinians there before being displaced to third countries.

“The intention is to hold them there until an opportunity arises to send them elsewhere outside of Gaza, be that Egypt or any number of third countries,” Omar Rahman, a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, said.

“Israel understands that if the [Israeli army] operates a concentration camp in Rafah, it wouldn’t look very nice,” Shehada told Al Jazeera, adding that Israel would prefer “a Palestinian face that’s dressed in Palestinian uniforms with a Palestinian flag and speaking in Arabic” as the face of such an operation.

In addition, he said, Abu Shabab has “two very well-oiled Facebook propaganda machineries” that could convince desperate people to seek shelter in his camps, “especially if Israel [begins] forcefully pushing people there.”

“Abu Shabab’s militia is running smaller concentration camps within areas Israel controls and has advertised them as ‘safe havens’ for people to come get aid and set up tents and such,” Kenney Shawa said.

Assaults by Israeli soldiers become a daily reality in occupied West Bank’s Sebastia

On July 2, Khaled Azem was pulled from his car at a checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank. Israeli soldiers beat and humiliated him, forcing him to say: “I love Israel”, while filming him on his phone, then posting it to his social media.

Azem, 25, and his brother-in-law had just left home in Sebastia, a village to the northwest of Nablus, to work on a construction site. That’s when he fell victim to one of the increasing attacks that villagers say are part of Israel’s plan to drive Palestinians out.

Israel has purportedly set its sights on Sebastia because it’s an important archaeological site believed to be among the oldest continuously inhabited places in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli drone attacks wound three in Lebanon

At least three people have been wounded in an Israeli raid on Naqoura, southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that the attack was carried out by an Israeli drone.

Main events on August 12th

• At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn.
• Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel is still blocking the entry of more than 430 food items, including frozen meat, fish, dairy and vegetables.
• Two more people have died of malnutrition: a six-year-old boy and a 30-year-old man. Gaza’s Health Ministry says 227 people have died of malnutrition since the war began.
• A Hamas delegation has arrived in Egypt for more talks on securing a ceasefire deal, which comes as Israel pushes ahead with a phased occupation strategy.
• Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK and 23 European allies say the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached “unimaginable levels” and call on Israel to allow more aid into the territory. Germany and Hungary did not sign the statement.
• Netanyahu will be required to testify three times a week in his corruption trial, starting in November, judges overseeing the case have ruled, according to Israeli media.

State Department spokeswoman objects to references to Israel, US Gaza complicity

The outgoing spokesperson of the US State Department, Tammy Bruce, on Tuesday repeatedly objected to reporters when they sought to highlight the brazenness with which both the Netanyahu government and the Trump administration had conducted themselves on the goings on in Gaza. She took a dim view of one reporter highlighting that Israel had never concluded a single investigation on its own questionable conduct in Gaza. She then had a problem with a reporter implying that Israel had possibly used the US weapons to target journalists in Gaza on Sunday.

This came a day after Trump announced Bruce’s name as the future Deputy Ambassador at the UN.

"They Need Ozempic!" Piers Morgan STUNNED By Huckabee Starvation Denial

Krystal and Ryan discuss Mike Huckabee denying the starvation in Gaza on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Chlöe Swarbrick barred from Parliament after Gaza speech

Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has been ejected from Parliament's debating chamber and told to leave for the rest of the week after a fiery speech about the war in Gaza.

She was taking part in an urgent debate called after the coalition's announcement it would come to a formal decision in September over whether to recognise the state of Palestine. Swarbrick challenged the coalition MPs to back her member's bill, allowing New Zealand to apply sanctions on Israel "for its war crimes".

"If we find six of 68 government MPs with a spine, we can stand on the right side of history," she said.

Almost immediately, Speaker Gerry Brownlee condemned the remark as "completely unacceptable" and demanded she "withdraw it and apologise". Swarbrick shot back a curt - "no" - prompting Brownlee to order her out of the chamber for the remainder of the week. "Happily," Swarbrick said, as she rose to leave.

The comments are turned off on the video from RNZ, so I checked the comments on the report from The Independent. Ok that's why they're turned off. There goes New Zealand off my bucket list. 

Protests over Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza | BBC News

There have been protests across Europe and the US over Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza on Monday. The UN's human rights office has condemned the attack, calling it a grave breach of international law. Five Al Jazeera journalists, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in an Israeli air strike on Sunday. Two others were killed, including a freelance journalist, the broadcaster said. Israel's military said it targeted Sharif, alleging he had "served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas" - something Sharif denied. Israel provided little evidence for this claim and has said nothing about the other journalists it killed.

BBC should ‘scrutinise’ Israeli allegations against Anas al-Sharif says Salah Negm

When asked about Israeli claims that Anas al-Sharif, Al Jazeera’s prominent journalist who was killed along with five other journalists in an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering Palestinian reporters on Sunday, was “head of a Hamas terrorist cell,” Salah Negm, Al Jazeera’s Director of News, said the BBC should “investigate that and scrutinise” the claims and ask “follow-up questions.” Negm also urged the BBC to hire Palestinian reporters inside Gaza so they can “convey what’s happening on the ground.”

That's too much to ask from a propaganda mouth piece.
https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-were-forced-to-do-pro-israel/

Israel's Murderous Campaign On Journalists With Ramzy Baroud & Max Blumenthal

Katie is joined by Palestinian journalist and writer Ramzey Baroud to talk about Gaza, where he was born, and Israel's Holocaust.

Then Katie and journalist Max Blumenthal debunk Zionist talking points.

UN chief warns Israel, Russia over reports of sexual abuse by armed forces

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has put Israel and Russia “on notice” that their armed forces and security personnel could be listed among parties “credibly suspected” of committing sexual violence in conflict zones.

The warning on Tuesday resulted from “significant concerns regarding patterns of certain forms of sexual violence that have been consistently documented by the United Nations”, Guterres wrote in a report seen by the Reuters news agency.

In his annual report to the UN Security Council on conflict-related sexual violence, Guterres said that Israel and Russia could be listed next year among the parties “credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence”.


In his warning to Israel, Guterres said he was “gravely concerned about credible information of violations by Israeli armed and security forces” against Palestinians in several prisons, a detention centre and a military base.

“Cases documented by the United Nations indicate patterns of sexual violence such as genital violence, prolonged forced nudity and repeated strip searches conducted in an abusive and degrading manner,” Guterres wrote.

Because Israel has denied access to UN monitors, it has been “challenging to make a definitive determination” about patterns, trends and the systematic use of sexual violence by its forces, he said, urging Israel’s government “to take the necessary measures to ensure immediate cessation of all acts of sexual violence, and make and implement specific time-bound commitments.”

The UN chief said these should include investigations of credible allegations, clear orders and codes of conduct for military and security forces that prohibit sexual violence, and unimpeded access for UN monitors.

In March, UN-backed human rights experts accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence”.

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said it documented a range of violations perpetrated against Palestinian women, men, girls and boys, and accused Israeli forces of rape and sexual violence against Palestinian detainees.

...

In the case of Russia, Guterres wrote that he was “gravely concerned about credible information of violations by Russian armed and security forces and affiliated armed groups”, primarily against Ukrainian prisoners of war, in 50 official and 22 unofficial detention facilities in Ukraine and Russia.

“These cases comprised a significant number of documented incidents of genital violence, including electrocution, beatings and burns to the genitals, and forced stripping and prolonged nudity, used to humiliate and elicit confessions or information,” he said.

Guterres said that Russian authorities have not engaged with his special envoy on the matter.

The Two-State Solution Sham, And Other Reader Questions

The answer to the 1st question is exactly how I think about it. It's the inconvenient truth.

Is the two-state solution a solution or a delusion?"

Israeli officials have been telling us themselves that it's a delusion for a while now, and I think we should believe them. Everything about Israel is stacked against allowing the creation of a Palestinian state. And even if the Palestinians do get a meaningful state somehow, what then?

Israel is constantly at war with its neighbors who refuse to obey its dictates. So a Palestinian state would necessarily either be a Israel continuing to bomb and massacre Palestinians just like they're doing now, or B Palestinians obeying the dictates of Tel Aviv and not being meaningfully sovereign.

The truth is that Palestinians will never be free as long as Israel exists as the hypermilitaristic racist settler colonialist state that it is.

The way to have peace and freedom is to give everyone equal rights, grant right of return for displaced Palestinians, write the wrongs of the past, and for Israel and its Western allies to pay so many reparations to Palestinians that the wounds of the past are no longer felt by future generations.

Israelis will never go along with this unless they are forced to. But they won't stop any of their other evils unless they are forced to anyway. The world is going to have to force them to stop, just like it had to force Nazi Germany to stop.


And you can already see the 2-state solution turning into 'obeying the dictates of Tel Aviv' with the conditions being put out up front in partnership with the Israeli sponsored PA. 

It feels so unreachable, but the alternative is genocide or complete ethnic cleansing. And then you still have the problem of what next.

Hopefully with sanctions, leading to new elections in Israel, a more moderate government can be formed that ends the genocide and starts dismantling the settler terrorists. The problem is how to convince the Israelis.